This is a chapter for the forthcoming book “Human Rights and Health: Gender and Sexuality in Insurgent Voices” organized by Maria Helena Barros de Oliveira, Angélica Batista da Silva and Patrícia Von der Way, to be published in Portuguese. It discusses how Feminist HCI, Design Justice, Intersectionality, and Decoloniality relate through the common critique of power dynamics reflected in information technologies. Demands for justice have been incorporated into reflections on design through frameworks born from activism by scholars and researchers in architecture and design, such as Design Justice, which maps and combats biases, prejudices, violence, and racism of all kinds, especially within communities. We report this new aspect to a recent theoretical field arising from human-computer interaction, which, with artificial intelligence and a series of new technologies, impacts new types of interaction, such as human-algorithm interaction.
Recent research on technological feminism and design has converged – over the last 15 years – towards the ‘Feminist IHC,’ which advocates for including feminist elements in the design and development of technological artifacts.
By identifying how biases manifest themselves through design, we understand that the debate is intersectional when it relates the problems of inequalities, misogyny, and racism – as well as the environmental impact of technologies – to the legacy of colonialism.